nadar
\naˈðaɾ\
The verdict
“nadar” is uncommon French (frequency #76,819 among 1,563 “N” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,819
- frequency rank, French
- 1,563
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nager.
Corpus desk
Index FR-nadar · nadar · French
nadar · rank #76,819 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,819
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,563
- PHOTO-FINISH mégapole
Nearest frequency peer: mégapole (-2 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « nadar »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- muselé
muselé
23,186 corpus weight
- mutualisés
mutualisés
23,185 corpus weight
- mégapole
mégapole
23,184 corpus weight
- nadar
nadar
23,182 corpus weight
- Nafissatou
Nafissatou
23,180 corpus weight
- nagez
nagez
23,179 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « nadar » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nadar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \naˈðaɾ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #76,819 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « nadar » en français
Rare enough to double-check
nadar is uncommon French at frequency #76,819 among 1,563 “N” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \naˈðaɾ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nager.".
nadar doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is nadar, spelled N-A-D-A-R.
Definition
- 1Nager.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nadar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ángel nadó en el océano.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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